August 9, 2007

I live in a themed subdivision. The streets are named Quail Run, Eagle, Heron, Mallard, Dove, Sandpiper, Pelican, and Falcon.

When I was teaching in Mt. Healthy, a number of students lived in a neighborhood they called The Planets with Neptune, Zodiac, Polaris, Aquarius, Venus, Moonlight, Sirius, Morningstar, Mercury, Mars, and Planet. (I know, they're not all planets, but they still called the neighborhood The Planets.)

I've known friends who lived on Lord Alfred with Tennyson, Percivale, Gareth, Bedevere, and Locksley (admittedly, not the most masculine of neighborhoods) right nearby.

But I've not yet found any neighborhoods whose streets have themed names that I'd be happy with. Today's challenge to you is two-fold. First, gimme some street names in a theme that you'd like to make if you were a developer. Second, see if you can identify the themes I used in the following possible neighborhoods:

#1 Basketball players?#2 South Park characters last names#3 ?#4 Last names of 50's singers#5 Dogs you have had since childhood (though only naicknames since some are not correct given names)#6 based on Plessy... supreme court cases?#7 Wilco members#8 baseball players

#1 - Echt is closest...but secret identities of whom?#2 - Yeah, South Park#3 - no guesses yet#4 - those have more in common than just 50's singers...and they weren't all MoTown#5 - Yup, dogs#6 - Supreme court cases...good call, Ame & Calen#7 - Wilco - excellent, Calen & Ame#8 - baseball, yes, but there's more to them in common than that

As to Calen's choices...Samwise et al are the Fellowship...the second list is the WSLL 12-under all stars...

Lakes, I like your choices, and I'm thinking that they'd be way better than the virtues...

#1 - yes, DC, but why those specific seven?#3 - You had originally typed X-Factor, and I would've given it to you on a technicality. X-Men, is, however, what our judges were specifically looking for.#4 & #8 - both were the respective first classes into their halls of fame